Ana Lucia Araujo. Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. 640 pp. 47 Halftones. 6×9. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $39.95. Cloth. ISBN: 9780226771588.

Ana Lucia Araujo. Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. 640 pp. 47 Halftones. 6 × 9. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $39.95. Hardback. ISBN: 9780226771588.

The Nights Still Smell of Gunpowder.2024.93 minutes.Tsonga and Portuguese.Mozambique.16mm Filmes.Staer.No price reported

Abstract Michael Sata’s presidency in Zambia (2011–14) marked a notable attempt to revive statist development ideas rooted in the country’s postindependence era. While the preceding MMD government had begun reintroducing limited state intervention, its commitment remained constrained. Sata, by contrast, articulated a more assertive vision of state-led development, echoing the UNIP-era model under Kenneth Kaunda. Drawing on policy documents, speeches, and survey data, this article situates Sata’s politics and policies within broader public dissatisfaction with neoliberal reforms and highlights enduring tensions in Africa’s poststructural adjustment era between market-oriented policies and demands for greater state involvement.

Samuel Fury Childs Daly. Soldier’s Paradise: Militarism in Africa after Empire. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. 284 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $28.95. Paper. ISBN: 9781478030836.

Emma Park. Infrastructural Attachments: Austerity, Sovereignty, and Expertise in Kenya. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. 304 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $28.95. Paper. ISBN: 9781478031109.

Out of the Box: The Screen Worlds of Judy Kibinge.Given the huge challenges that African filmmakers face-creatively, technically, financially, politically, and ideologically-Kibinge's career is certainly worth celebrating and documenting.Nairobi, the capital of Kenya where Kibinge is based, is an astonishing filmmaking hub because of the large number of high profile and increasingly internationally celebrated female filmmakers who work there.The international dimension of this film industry is of less significance though, as the most illuminating aspect of this documentary is revealing to the viewer what is possible when filmmakers take the tools of storytelling entirely into their own hands.This is particularly pertinent in the East African context, where homegrown, indigenous filmmaking has long been hampered by the legacy of British colonialism, which treated film as an instructional tool, a colonial hangover that contributed to the prevalence of NGO-funded, creatively limiting didactic documentary-making.The region has also often been exploited by foreign filmmaking, including in European or North American films that use the African environment as a backdrop for white stories, or in nature documentaries fetishizing the stunning natural landscapes.The film was produced as part of Dovey's large-scale five-year European Research Council-funded project entitled "African Screen Worlds: Decolonising Film and Screen Studies."Out of the Box: The Screen Worlds of Judy Kibinge depicts decolonization in action.Kibinge is an engaging and whip-smart creative subject for a documentary.She invites Dovey into her life with candor and generosity, sharing details of her professional journey-which started in a high-flying corporate advertising environment-and even glimpses of her private life as we meet her husband, Joshua (who also works with/for her), young son, Elliot (who describes his mother's achievements as "so crazy"), and her parents, who relate how she didn't crawl or walk as a toddler, but rolled: "the rolling one."Kibinge is multitalented; in addition to her advertising and filmmaking career, she is a founding member of the African literary magazine Kwani? and the founder of Docubox, an East African documentary film fund described in the documentary as a home for independent filmmakers, an initiative to build networks, friendships, trust, and skills.Other subjects in the documentary rightly describe her as a trailblazer.Dovey interviews many colleagues, family, friends, and aspiring-as well as

Sharlene Swartz, Tarryn De Kock, and Catherine A. Odora Hoppers, eds. Transformative Leadership in African Contexts: Strategies for Social Change. Cape Town, South Africa: HSRC Press, 2024. 462 pp. Index. $45.00. Paper. ISBN: 9780796926616.

Abstract Recent disruptions in technology, geopolitics, and the environment have contested what it means to be human, a source of social and political anxiety about the future. Taking inspiration from African and African diaspora writers and scholars, Lee attends to theories of the human that emerge from contemporary experiences on the African continent. The essay provides a countercanon by centering debates about the human and their attendant attempts to transcend it (more-than-human, posthuman) in African experiences and knowledges. Doing so offers alternative conceptions of human–nonhuman relations that unravel the co-imbrication of colonialism, capitalism, and anti-Black racism that undergird the modern condition.

Abstract Associational life in Cape Town is a mechanism for migrants from the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to find belonging in South Africa. We trace the internal politics of associational membership from 2000 to 2019 to illustrate how membership in eastern Congolese associations has minimized community ties to other foreign Africans and South Africans. An increase in election violence in the DRC, divided into pro- and anti-combattant camps, and the threat of xenophobic violence in South Africa have led to a closing of ranks that presumes only other eastern Congolese can be trusted. In tracing gender, class and language cleavages, we find that eastern DRC associational life reproduces the xenophobia associational membership is intended to ameliorate.